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The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for east-central Curry County on Friday. It expired at 5:30 p.m. It instructed those in the path of the storm to take cover immediately in a basement or interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building. According to NWS: • At 4:52 p.m., a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado was located near Ranchvale, 13 miles northwest of Clovis, moving northeast at 30 mph. • A tornado and quarter-size hail are possible. • Radar indicated rotation. NWS warned that... Full story
Genny Rojas was 4 years old when her aunt and uncle, Veronica and Ivan Gonzales, tortured and murdered her. They suspended her alive by a hook on the closet wall in their apartment. They shook her violently, strangled her, beat her with a hairbrush, and handcuffed her for days. She died after she was forced into a scalding bath tub for three minutes. A California jury sentenced Veronica and Ivan to death, and the California Supreme Court upheld their convictions. If anyone...
The American criminal justice system has been getting some much-needed renovations lately: people with nonviolent and low-level convictions are being diverted from receiving harsh sentences, prison populations are declining in many states, and policymakers are open to new approaches to addressing crime. At the deep end of the system we see reforms as well: efforts to eliminate the death penalty are gaining ground and public support for the death penalty is at its lowest point...
SANTA FE — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's office on Thursday denied allegations from a former campaign spokesman that the first-term Democratic governor had sexually mistreated him last year in front of other campaign staffers and supporters. The ex-spokesman, James Hallinan, told the Journal he plans to report the incident to law enforcement when he returns from traveling out of the country. He also said he was pressured not to report the incident and not to quit Lujan Grisham's campaign after it allegedly occurred. "It's l...
“By the way, I’m not doing Christmas cards. If you want them sent, you’ll have to do it.” According to Sam Gardner in Philip Gulley’s delightful “Harmony” series, it was the same “fight” every year. Sam, pastor of the Harmony Friends’ Meeting (Quaker church) would buy four boxes of Christmas cards at Kivett’s Five and Dime and lay them on the dining room table with the address book nearby. On this particular year, nothing happened. So he moved the cards into the bedroom, pla...
I have dyed my hair several times in my life. The first time was when I had longer hair. I dyed the tips of my hair green. To dye my hair, I had to bleach the tips, but it wasn’t that big of a deal since it wasn’t all of my hair. But after I dyed the tips, I wanted to dye all my hair. So then I bleached my whole head then dyed it all blue. I really liked that because blue is my favorite color. Finally, I dyed blue, green and purple. It looked cool when my hair was put up, but eventually I dyed my hair back to brown. Then I w...
I went with my parents to get a Christmas tree. All the trees were wearing hangtags shaped like bells and all the bells had hand-lettered names on them. At first, I assumed these trees were spoken for and the names indicated the person who had reserved the tree. Then I realized that, no, the names were for the trees. This was a fancy place and, apparently, when you spend as much as this store was charging for a tree, the tree came complete with a name. Actually, for what they were charging, I’m surprised the trees didn’t com...
Today is Christmas, the date on the calendar when we celebrate the earthly birth of Jesus Christ and the best of human nature. Exactly two months ago, on Oct. 25, an Amarillo couple experienced sort of an early Christmas along Interstate-40, about 11 miles east of Clines Corners. Carl and Carol Weiss were traveling to Santa Fe for a few days of recreation when, Carl said, the right front tire of the couple’s Ford Escape blew out. They pulled off the highway. Carl and Carol located the spare, the jack and the lug wrench, t...
The concept of “the 50-year rule” was founded by the National Park Service back in 1948 as a good measure of determining when something is old enough to be considered officially “historic.” Accordingly, the 1969 Christmas season is entering the pages of history, even as you read. I scrolled through a few copies of the Portales News-Tribune and the Clovis News-Journal from the week before Christmas a half-century ago to see what was going on in eastern New Mexico and what lo...
